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Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

Category:
Stubbornness
Author
George Eliot
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Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot

Category:
best
Author
George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Beauty

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable. – Tom Ford

Category:
Beauty

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon. – Tia Carrere

Category:
Beauty

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. – Chaim Potok

Category:
Beauty

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mom

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

Category:
Arbor Day

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. – Ellen DeGeneres

Category:
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Venus favors the bold. – Ovid

Category:
Boldness